MS Word Outline Formatting - Unwanted Page Break

[jdurand \(removethis\)]

INTRO:

I'm a law student, and for some reason, law students are
virtually required to convert class notes into absurdly
long "outlines." The best tool for such is MS Word. I
retype everything in Word with a customized outline
format. I think that I'm using MS Word 2002.


THE PROBLEM:

Quite often, Word will decide to insert a page break.
For whatever reasons, it may decide that the next line
(be it level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 of the outline) must
begin on a new page. This might happen even if the
previous line is at the top of a page.

Does anyone have any suggestions for how to correct the
problem? I've played with this on-and-off for some time,
and I have failed.

Thanks!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Is the style formatted as "page break before"?

 

[jdurand \(removethis\)]

No. The style is NOT formatted "page break before."
That's what's so strange about this problem. It doesn't
happen all the time, but once every few pages, one of the
lines decides to make a break. It isn't always the same
outline level that causes the problem.

Any other ideas?

Jennings

 

[jdurand \(removethis\)]

Ms. Barnhill -

Thanks for your help! I saw your post on
the "applications errors" newsgroup, and I looked to see
if any of the problem spots were formatted with, "Keep
with next."

For some reason, ALL of them were (of the few outlines I
scanned through). Unchecking the box made the problem
disappear.

Thus, for those interested, if this problem occurs:

1) click onto the first line of the new page;
2) select "Format ... paragraph ... line and page breaks"
3) make sure that the "keep with page breaks" box is NOT
checked.

It worked for me!!

Thanks again,
Jennings

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Heading styles are by default formatted as "Keep with next" because of
course you want a heading to stay with the text that follows it, but if you
are creating an outline entirely from heading styles, then you do need to
change this. But I should have remembered this when you mentioned an
outline.